50 Worst Broadband Streets

A cul-de-sac in a Northamptonshire village and a street in Woburn, Bedfordshire, have been named among the 50 worst UK streets for broadband speeds.

The list has been compiled by the website uSwitch.com.

People in Hillside Road, Piddington, Northamptonshire can expect average connection speeds of just 0.613Mbps. People in London Road, Woburn can expect average speeds of 0.658Mbps.

The UK's slowest street has been named as Cromarty Road, Stamford, Lincolnshire, where average connection speeds only reach 0.132Mbps.

By contrast, the UK's fastest street is Willowfield Road in Telford, Shropshire, which has registered super-fast download speeds of 70.9Mbps over the past six months; a staggering 537 times faster than Cromarty Road.

It would take Willowfield residents just 2 minutes 49 seconds to download a two-hour film, and 11 seconds to download a music album, while Cromarty Road residents would take 25 hours and 15 minutes to download a two-hour film and 1 hour and 41 minutes to download the same album.

The following table lists the 50 slowest streets in the UK in terms of average broadband connection speeds:

Julia Stent, broadband expert at uSwitch.com, said: "The massive discrepancy between the fastest and slowest streets in Britain shows what the Government is up against in its fight to drag Britain into the broadband fast-lane.

"These results show just how ambitious it is being in its bid to overtake the rest of Europe and haul Britain in line with the likes of South Korea and Singapore by bringing super-fast broadband to 90% of the UK. Rural parts of Britain in particular are still experiencing broadband speeds so slow that they might as well have no broadband at all."

“Ultimately, anyone frustrated with their broadband service should test their speeds regularly online and compare the results to those of other broadband users in the same area. If the tests reveal that another provider is offering better speeds in your local area, consider switching."